Steve Raible: Holy Catfish, I can not believe you all forgot him. Best for his game calls.
Now that you mentioned Steve Raible to which I agree with your comments about, one has to mention his mentor, Pete Gross.
While watching Seahawk games, I used to turn down the volume on the TV and turn on the local radio broadcast, something that's impossible nowadays as the two won't come anywhere close to syncing up. The radio call was always just a little bit ahead of the TV signal, but not to the point where it was unwatchable.
In any event, Gross's calls were fantastic. He was very precise in his descriptions of the live action and when he got excited, he would shout out in his high-pitched voice
"Touchdown, Seahawks!" It was a good way for a novice to learn about the game as you could see what was happening as Gross was calling out
"Two backs set behind Krieg. Largent in motion left to right across the formation, long count, Krieg may be changing the play."
Instead of butchering names like the network announcers, like Manu Tuiasosopo, he pronounced them flawlessly. Back then, the radio announcers traveled with the team, came to know the players personally vs. the TV guys who rotated in and out with scores of teams.
I'm not taking anything away from Steve Raible, but he learned the ropes from Pete Gross, my ATF radio/TV announcer.
